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Commercialization of Health Care: Global and Local Dynamics and Policy Responses
September 2005
Author: Maureen Mackintosh, Meri Koivusalo
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Health care is increasingly a market sector, but the process of commercialization is widely contested. Rising international trade in health services, migration of health care personnel, liberalization and privatization of local health care markets, cash payment within the public sector, increasing involvement of multinational companies: all these aspects have been promoted by a dominant framework of thought in international health policy that favours commercialization wherever possible. Health care commercialization poses enormous challenges for health planners and activists who aim to ensure decent health care for all. This book, edited by Maureen Mackintosh and Meri Koivusalo, is the first to bring together economists and health policy and public health experts to create an integrated analysis of these different aspects of health care commercialization. Based on original research and analysis by a group of health policy experts and economists from across the world, this book analyses the causes and consequences of the expanding global and local commercialization of health care. It argues for the necessity and possibility of effective policy responses to develop good quality, universally inclusive health systems worldwide. The book aims to contribute to a shift in the international “common sense” in health policy toward a more humane, inclusive, egalitarian, and ethical framework for policy formulation.
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Civil Society and the Market Question: Dynamics of Rural Development and Popular Mobilization
August 2005
Author: K. B. Ghimire
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Rather than focusing upon advanced countries, where civil society growth is seen as a post-market development, this volume, edited by K.B. Ghimire, explores developing countries, with case studies examining grassroots developments and experiences. The desirability, efficiency and effectiveness of market institutions as viewed by civil society organizations is addressed in this important collection, which moves the debate from acceptance or criticism of global markets to focus upon the case of rural development where local social relations and economic exchange remain more powerful and relevant than the operation of markets.
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Racism and Public Policy
June 2005
Author: Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Yusuf Bangura
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In a time when racism is on the rise as a source of conflict and social justice has been increasingly demanded by the civic society, this collection stands as a timely reminder that to ignore the racial factor in the globalization forces is as mistaken as eliminating class analysis. The essays published in this book edited by Yusuf Bangura and Rodolfo Stavenhagen supplement the literature of comparative race relations from the standpoint of the theory of institutional racism and its effect on public policies such as immigration, citizenship, security and policing.
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Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World
February 2005
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Based on the findings of UNRISD's ongoing gender research and over 60 specially commissioned studies, the report's analysis is centred on the economic and political reforms of the 1990s. If most of these reforms did not directly address gender equality, they nevertheless received considerable scrutiny from a gender perspective. And whatever their intentions, they had significant and mixed implications for gender relations and women’s well-being.
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